I was singing the praises of how well multiple ‘boxes work the other day, should have known I was tempting fate!
Seems there’s a requirement for the second box to be always online when playing games that I hadn’t realised (basically it has to be set as your ‘home’ console - something you can only change 5 times a year).
Ordinarily not an issue - i’ve been using them like this for a while buuuut enter Australia’s wonderful ISP’s! Internet has been down (for the entire suburb) for the past 26 hours with no estimate for at all (unsurprisingly) for repair.
Tethered to my phone which worked ok, but everytime the signal drops (irritatingly common) the games kick me back to the title screen ‘sensing’ a profile change. Hardly world ending in perspective & i’ve obviously got my switch/other stuff i can play but still irritating that something so trivial is such a blocker.
Other whinge is that you can’t force the machine to use wi-fi when still hard wired, you have to remove the cable first which seems bizarre too.
NB: That link above shows there’s currently an xbl service outage too - not sure what/which region(s) are affected (be hilarious if it’s me and it’s still down when internet is fixed!)
@redd214 Yeah... I just LOVE me a bit of sarcasm from time to time.
But the article it's based on has some interesting information, though, for those into the minutiae of what Microsoft is doing concerning the next generation.
@ThanosReXXX I mean not really lol. Basically the article is they're hiring people for the next xbox. No real details or anything outside of cookie cutter job descriptions and position names. It's honestly one of those "yeah, thanks captain obvious" articles more than anything.
If anyone is interested in Darksiders 3 or Just Cause 4 digitally, can get them on Newegg for 10% off with code EMCEERW55. They will both probably drop in price physically pretty quickly so may not be the best, but figured I'd share.
@redd214 I meant the articles AND the links therein. People that know what to look for, will be able to connect the dots from there. Mind you, I'm no (hardcore) tech head myself, but there's individuals that are able to more or less extract information from people's work history and/or résumé's and what not, in order to guesstimate what exactly they might be working on or what will probably be in the next Xbox instead of just coming to the general and most obvious conclusion that Microsoft is "hiring new tech people to work on the new hardware"...
As Deal with Gold BioShock: The Collection is 75% off, biggest discount ever.
Oh cool, I'm glad I saved some of that prepaid card balance now.
I have them on steam, but, yeah, laptop. The family desktop runs it better, but we mostly got that one for my father and using it to play my games is a bad look.
Finally got my wheel working with FH4, adapter wasn't taking update properly or something, and man is like a totally different game. If you have the means and the space highly recommend getting a good wheel setup!
@redd214 What brand of steering wheel do you have? I've got some cheaper ones for my older consoles, but nine out of ten times, the actually good ones cost a fortune, and seeing as I'm not purely a racing sim player,
I just can't justify the cost of buying one to myself.
Last generation, I briefly considered buying that weird Xbox 360 "air wheel" controller, but ultimately decided against it.
@ThanosReXXX I'm using my ps4 wheel currently. It's a Logitech G29 and is currently only a couple hundred bucks. They native Xbone equivalent is the logitech G920. They're mid range wheels for sure but are above controllers if you get used to them. Planning on hopefully getting a more robust setup next year funds permitting of course!
Rather than double post it all, I figured I'd give you guys a link to my comments on Darksiders III if you're interested. I got it on X1 but posted about it in the PS4 thread since there was conversation about it there yesterday: https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/other_gaming/the_playstati...
I'll say, I've only seen DA:I with the DLC, and I've not replayed II with it. I played DA2 at launch and it was a painful experience. That was the start of EA trashing everything good about Bioware. I do agree fully with you though, compared to 1, both are bad. I actually have to re-play 1 on console, I played it on PC originally in it's "proper" BG2 style isometric form. It was no BG2 (that made it evident to me just how much Black Isle (a.k.a Obsidian/inExlie/a.k.a. MS Game Studios, now.... )built what we consider to be Bioware's output. ) , and performance was bad, but it had that "MMO type stuff" galore. So did BG2, really.
@Yosheel It does suspend it like Switch & 3DS. The game is probably not counting time but subtracting startup time from current time. When it launched, there weren't suspend modes to consider, it was an early X1/PS4 launch. X1 added "instant on" as a beta in year 1. Sony took like 2 years to add Rest mode (despite promising it 8 months before launch...)
@BrainOfGrimlock Yeah, because box #1 allows any user to play any game on it at any time without checking the licensing server, any other box would have to check the licensing server to run to be sure you're not playing it on many machines (you CAN have a user that isn't you play it on box 1 while you play on box 2, though). That's bitten me a few times with XBL outages the past 2 months, but that's how it has to work (and it working that way is the only reason you can buy one copy for 2 boxes in the houshold and have 2 people play at once ) PS4, and now Switch work the same way.
@ThanosReXXX I was hoping Black would be on the Black Friday sales, but alas. There's always the New Year's sale
@BlueOcean Is BioShock horror/suspense? I keep skipping it because I get the impression it is, and thus isn't for me....yet I often get curious.
@redd214 thanks, I might take advantage of that! Was going to get digital JC4, so it's just a debate of take the 10% now or wait for 20-50% digital sales to happen soon-ish.
The bioshocks have a few famous scary bits, but I wouldn't say they're horror or suspense games. They're fairly atmospheric though, I think you should be able to appreciate them.
About the suspend mode, that sounds better, but either way, I'd rather not have a file that thinks I've played for 900 hours. And I'm too lazy to end the game manually every time
I think I've asked this before but I forgot the answer. What improvements do the Xbone/XboneS add when you play original Xbox games? I assume there's higher resolution and anti-aliasing?
On X the original Xbox games run at native 4K with the associated anti-aliasing and supersampling benefits, on S (and original Xbox One) if I remember correctly they run at native 1080p.
The first backwards compatible original Xbox games were released recently as I said yesterday, but the very first one (on Xbox One, obviously) was Grabbed by the Ghoulies (Rare Replay). It was SD and 30 fps on Xbox and it is 1080p and 60 fps on Xbox One. A huge upgrade, but probably the other Xbox games "only" get the resolution upgrade and smoother performance but not a double frame rate refresh (if they were 30 fps). Anyway the resolution boost from SD to native HD is already massive.
@NEStalgia I played the first Bioshock when I was in middle school, I believe (I'm a young adult), and I was a child scared out of my pants from the Resident Evil Remake, but Bioshock never ever struck me as horror. Maybe suspenseful, but it didn't even cross my mind, honestly. I remember getting internet a year or so later and joining gaming sites and being confused when people kept describing it as a horror game.
I never felt scared. The only part any of them that I considered "scary" was a jump scare in the first game involving a surgeon and his shadow. I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of people that find it "scary" but when compared to actual horror games it's pretty much just a big power trip, which takes away any feeling of horror, anyway.
Also, thanks for the Darksiders 3 write up. I think I'll feel pretty much the same as you more or less in that I'll probably just see it as more of the same in terms of combat with added "souls" difficulty. In particular your part about how the first two games were similar in blatantly wearing their inspiration on their sleeves resonated strongly as someone going through the first game now. That metacritic score is a joke, though, I sincerely doubt I'll find it to be anywhere near accurate, but I suppose it's always a possibility. On the bright side, it should get pretty cheap soon enough.
I'm 660,000 away from the most expensive house in Horizon 4. Just got to race hard tomorrow and I'll get it. Then hopefully I'll get extremely lucky with those super wheelspins you get for buying it and reclaim about 5 million back.
@redd214 Yeah, that's kinda what I expected. And "only" a couple of hundred bucks is only a couple of hundred too much for me, considering what I've said in the previous comment. Spending that amount of money for just one peripheral that I will only use every once in a while represents a pretty reasonable stack of games in my book, and I'd rather buy those than a steering wheel, much as I enjoy them when I actually do use them.
The most I ever paid for a steering wheel, is around $50, when it was on a considerable discount.
It's a König Gaming steering wheel (original price $79.99), that came with pedals included.
I bought it for use with the Wii, but it is also compatible with the other two consoles from that generation: https://www.konigelectronic.com/gaming/universal/ps2gcuxbox-w...
And before that, I had bought the Mad Catz MC2 MicroCON steering wheel for the GameCube, which also came with pedals, and which I primarily used with R: Racing Evolution:
Don't know anymore what I paid for that one, because it's too long ago, but I do know that I also bought that at a massive discount, in a toy store.
@NEStalgia Well, I didn't buy Black on sale either. Bought it little over a month ago for the price that it currently sells for, and that is $9.99, and that's already pretty damn cheap, and the game itself is absolutely worth it. How much more should they discount it for? Personally, I don't think that a game like this should cost less than an indie or an Xbox Arcade title, regardless of the fact that it's an older game.
(heck, Nintendo sells NES games for $6. Just sayin'... )
And that $9.99 was well worth it for me, to not have to swap discs all the time, so I can just play it from the hard drive...
@ThanosReXXX Haha well I have to make back the $22 or so Square-Enix stole from me by putting FFXIII trilogy half price 3 days after they launched it and asked me to pay. You're right though $10 is fine. It's just that it's a game I'm entirely unfamiliar with so it's kind of a "try it just because Thanos recommended it" expense
You know I actually had the official 360 wheel......I ended up using it like twice. All the wires....having to clamp it to a desk....I'm not playing at a desk/table anymore so that just doesn't work, and is such painful setup. Shame it doesn't work with X1 though (even though I'd still likely not use it.)
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